Question – Hi Amit its great to read your blog, its even great to read atleast someone in India using cj and making money. Iam having a problem if you could help me please.Its been six months i have been using Commission Junction -CJ but have not make a cent. Would you please help me how do i enable keyword link? What are these SEM policies and if CJ management has expired keyword link then which link do i promote. I don’t own a website and i have even heard by so many people who says that they have wasted lot of money using Adwords. Would u some idea how do make profit with Google Adwords? please reply i been tired of watching this Online Jobs – Diya Wadhvani.
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Answer – The questions you have asked are quite simple to answer but needs to be understood carefully because this is what Commission Junction is all about. People have a perception that Making Money Online is a very easy job and try to buy those quick Google money kind of CD’s or Packages with a target to make large amount of money in a short span of time without any hard work and dedication. Let me give you the answers to your questions in a detailed manner within different sets so that you don’t get confused with the answers.
Keyword Link , URL & Linking Procedure : Unlike CJ any affiliate network would offer you with a link which would have your referral id details using which the network can track down the sale or lead and make the payment for the same. This is the most important part of Affiliate Marketing because if you wrongly link your ad campaigns, then all your efforts would go waste and the advertisements would get sales, but you wont be credited commissions for the same. When you click on the CJ > Advertiser Detail Page, you will find a section called ‘Get Links’ under which there is a option of ‘By Type – Text Link’. Click on this option. Next you will get a list of Linking Types with different ad text along with Get JavaScript & Get HTML option. Its recommended to select ‘Get HTML’ option to proceed.
Next you will be shown with a page which has additional details on the Link which you can select and customize. You need to select the Website URL in order to track down the sale from which website or which campaign you are running. Also Check YES for all the following three options.
Encrypt link? Yes
Set link to open a new browser window? Yes
Hide tracking code in link? Yes
Once you do this, you will get the following code in the last box as shown below.
<a href="http://www.jdoqocy.com/af100uoxuowBFIGDEHIBDCGLEDJD" target="_blank" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.fatcow.com/fatcow/index.bml';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;">$10 off</a> web hosting by FatCow!<img src="https://www.tqlkg.com/r1101ax0pvtEILJGHKLEGFJOHGMG" width="1" height="1" border="0"/>
In the above code, you can find that the original code in the form of – <a href=”Affiliate URL”>Link Title</a>
From the given code you need to find the Affiliate Link which is the first link in the whole code. You can directly start promoting this link and all the sales commissions are tracked because the link has the whole commission information.
Adwords Promotion : Now since you have already found how to find out the correct keyword link for promoting, you need to check out different ways to promote it and get sales. Majorly there are two ways – Free Promotion through Websites/Blogs & Paid Promotion through Pay Per Click Advertisements. From all the different PPC Companies Adwords is known to be the best way because it offers you with the best cost-effective campaigns with the minimum per click cost of 1cent. You need to setup Adwords Advertisement Campaigns by setting up a new account with Google and linking your Credit Card for Payments to the company.
Also make sure that you calculate the costs and make sure that the advertisements are catchy, so that the ad visitors would not only click on your ads but also purchase the products through your links. Here is a small example on how to calculate everything.
If a advertiser is offering you 50$ commission for selling a product of 100$ cost, you need to make sure that you get atleast 1 sale for every 50$ of advertisement money spent. Now if you are setting up the per click cost at 5cents, you can expect 0.05 * 1000 = 50$, ie atleast 1000 visitors to your link. Now if you get atleast 1 sale in every 1000 visitors, you are still in break even point and not getting into any losses, any sale above 1 within these 1000 visitors would mean neat profit for your campaign. If you do the right calculations, setup catchy ad titles and implement correctly there is a lot of money to be made through PPC + Affiliate Marketing.
Read these tips on – Google Adwords Display URL & Destination URL, Improve Your Adwords Quality Score, Become Google Adwords Qualified Individual & Adsense Adwords Arbitrage.
SEM Policies : The Search Campaign Marketing Policies offers a way to specify the Publishers instructions regarding usage of different keywords in SEM[Search Engine Marketing] Campaigns. In additions to the features of the keyword link, Search Campaign marketing policies give you the ability to reference specific sections of the special terms & conditions. In short this means that certain advertisers would not allow you to advertise a few keywords or key-phrases in your Search Campaigns, hence you need to setup ad titles with different relevant or related content.
OH!THANK U VERY MUCH.u wont beleive …i have done my masters in computer appn. i even had try the link the way u stated and find aff.link but i always thought that cj will not take this link in to consideration as they have deleted option keyword link…i dont know y thought like so silly.ammm 1 more question.
i have little bit knowledge of asp.net.. so can i put an aff link in pge.upload code and can i give new name to the website and upload it through free uploading.com..will that work as alternative to domain name creation?
Yes this can work but the uploading.com hosted page URL wont be looking good and the buyers cannot believe this to be a legit website. Buying a new domain and a hosting account would not cost more than 20$ around in total for a years time, check hostbrains.com for the same.
Build a simple website with small information on the advertisers product or service and then publish the links within those articles. This can be helpful to the buyers and also cj would approve your website easily.
Thanks Ji, i wish to start affiliate marketing, will check it.
Sir i have paid some mony to commission junction for earning some extra mony but due to my elglish weakness i am unble to do it please provide me best way for mony earning through cj
Commission Junction is free to join and there is no fees to join the program. You should not pay anyone who asks you money to join cj programs. Also read the links in this article for detailed information on how to make money through CJ.
I have the relevant question about this topic. When we open the HTML page of the Cj banner, as you said, we have to click the three options ‘encrypt link’,’set link to open a new browser window’ & ‘hide tracking code in link’. Below this there is one more tab, ‘update link code’, when we have to use this tab?
Thanks & Regards,
Uma
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You can just ignore that option, because most of these options are optional to use and you can directly start using the code you get in the last tab.
hi amit happy holly……have a question ab8 daily budget of google adwords…how much money should i set for a daily budget…little bit confusion …
Its upto you, i would recommend going with something like 200-300Rs / day budget in the beginning and see how the campaign performs. Basically you need to keep the per click costs not very high.
if my budget is rs 1000 then what shud i do?
Then go for 200Rs/day so that the campaign would run for atleast around 5days. Try to add keywords which can get you right visitors at say 3-5cents rate, hence the 1000Rs budget can give you atleast 400-500 visitors.
is adword west of money for the begginners? i mean i have read lots of ab8 adwords …and adwords automaticaly raises cpc without hesitation and everybody fails with adwords …ends up with losses.
Google Adwords wont automatically raise the CPC without your consent, and this is because you can limit your daily budget and cost per click, following which you may get less clicks but in no case they will automatically increase the bids. Also there is nothing like its waste of money for beginners because everyone is a beginner in the starting phase and with time and experience they become professionals.
For setting a ad campaign in google adwords, do we need a site or adwords have some provision for it?
If I have to advertise 20-30 ads on adwords, then owning and maintaining sites will become a huge task. Then what will be a solution for it?
You dont need to own a website in order to run adwords advertisements. You can also go for free hosted web pages.
Hello Amit!
Doing a great job by guiding the Indians for online income. Keep it up. I am bit confused about retrieving the destination url, as you explained. May you kindly highlight the URL in the example which can be used as destination url in google adwords.
Thanks,
Rajesh
hi im new to cj wat r the steps in earning
Hi Amit! Read your blog for the first time….Its really very informative. I am an engineering student and working as a CJ affiliate since 2-3 months. I have been concentrating on the LEAD sites. But I have a very simple question. Do the SALE advertisers make us money as the LEAD can?? Becoz…online purchasing is considered to be insecure in most parts of the world…atleast INDIA. And if Yes …Are there any promising platforms for the promotion of my affiliate Link. Please suggest me some Good Sale websites for the promotion of my Affiliate company. I really want to move my nitch on these SALE sites.
Please advice me some more tips to be a success on CJ!!
Thanks…
Hi Sir
My Question is : Commission junction affiliate website are not provide Destination URL
How to put html and java link code put from google adwords Please Help this topic
Display URL
Destination URL
And How to Put Banner Ad In Google Adwords. Please Help Us.
Thank You.
hai sir joined commission junction before two months , i got above 100 visitors every day, but any one did not give any single lead, please help me to earn money, just i want to earn $100 per month, i am studying bca, so i need money to pay my exam fees, if i earn from cj it will helpful for me, thank you sir, my email id : [email protected]